Mohammad Qutub – Stories of the Quran – Haroot and Maroot Fallen Angels

And today,

we start from there,

the story of because

here,

your head will spin as well.

The story of Harut al Ma'ud.

Of course, we said the correct opinion, O

Allahu Ala, is that they are indeed angels,

even though there

are a lot of Mufasaerim who said otherwise,

because they were trying to exonerate the angels

from teaching

magic.

And furthermore,

this was given to them by Allah.

We mentioned the opinion of Ibad Bhattawari and

many others,

that this is all a test from Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And Allah gave it to

them as a test.

So,

and we will get to that part.

Harut and Mamt.

Who are they? Is there a story

behind them?

We mentioned the opinion of Imam Ibn Isha

and others, that Harut and Ma'ud's time is

way back from before the time of Nuhar

alaihis salam.

So there's a huge

time span between the time of Prophet Sulaiman

and

Al Malakim Biba Bilaru to Mawd.

There are many narrations

that give us a story that goes something

like this:

When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created

Adam and

then sent him down,

The

Allah

allowed the angels to see what the human

beings were doing on earth.

So they were amazed.

And they said to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

Look at everything that they're doing despite

all of your blessings upon them, oh Allah.

So he said to them,

if I send you down

in a similar way that I sent them,

you would do the same.

Meaning that obviously Allah Subha Ta'ala in that

case would give them

the same desires

that human beings have,

and would also

be

subject to the insinuations and whispering of the

shaytan and the shayateen for that matter.

So

the angels chose

2

of them,

Hawat and Mawt,

to be sent down.

And Allah

commanded them

not to worship anyone but Him,

not to steal, not to drink,

not

to commit fornication,

not to kill, and so on.

The story goes that

as they were busy

judging between people,

a woman came

complaining about her husband.

And they saw her, and they were attracted

to her, and they desired her.

And when they asked her,

she said she refused.

She said, Until you worship an idol, and

you drink alcohol.

Some narrations mentioned that they first refused,

but eventually,

they did that

in order for Ayad Abla to commit fornication

with her.

So they drank alcohol,

they worshiped idols,

and

they committed fornication.

And because someone was passing by that might

expose them,

they killed him.

So the narration mentions that in 1 day,

they had done everything

that was prohibited upon man.

And they are the ones that were shocked

by what human beings were doing.

Upon that,

they taught her

words,

maybe words of magic that she could say

in order to ascend into the heavens.

And when she made her ascent into the

heavens,

she forgot the words that would bring her

back down, and therefore Allah

turned her into

a planet or a star.

Okay? The narration mentions that her name in

Arabic is Zuhrah.

Okay?

The,

the planet that we know, Khalkab Zuhra.

For them,

they were not able to go back

and ascend into the heavens. And therefore, they

stayed on earth, and they taught people magic.

This is the

basic idea of the story behind Hawut and

Hawut

that you may read in a lot of

the books of tafsir.

Of course,

scholars had issues with this narration.

It smacks

clearly

of the stories of B'nai Israel

with a lot of strange things

that,

may lead scholars

to say this is weak, just based on

the content rather than the chain of narration.

On the other hand,

it has been narrated by many.

Narrated by some of the Sahaba as well,

ibn Abbas and Abdullah ibn

Mas'ud, Abdullah ibn Ummam,

and of course many of the targeting, like

Mujahid and Qatada,

Asudi

and Rabi, and others. Okay?

When,

looking at the many different ways

that this was narrated,

Imam Ibn Hajar

believes

that

there's some foundation for the story. It's not

completely fabricated.

Even though scholars of hadith may

accuse ibn Hajab, Al Aqibayullah, of being a

little bit

easy and flexible when it comes to judging

the authenticity of narrations.

Ibn Kathir

comments on this,

and, or before that,

when you look at the different narrations,

you may find

that actually,

when you look at all of them, it's

not correct to attribute any of this to

the Prophet

But possibly to Abdullah ibn Umar.

Who took it from whom?

Ta'Abil Akbar.

Who is, of course, 1 of those who

came, 1 of the the the Jewish scholars

who came to Islam,

and is known for narrating

many of these stories of Bani Israel.

So

you go this way, you go that way,

in the end, it seems to be based

on the narration of Kaab al Abbar. So

it is Israeliat,

at the end it is Israeliat. And this

is why Ibn Kathir says, yes, it has

been narrated by many of the Tabi'im, and

as I told you, even some of the

sahara.

He mentions it has been narrated by many

of the Tabi'een,

but it is clearly of the Ikhmar of

Bani Salil,

and there is no authentic

narration

from

the 1 who does not speak of his

own volition or of his own desire, the

Prophet

Nothing is properly and correctly attributed

to him. And therefore, he says, Allah mentions

it in brief, without any detail. We believe

in it as Allah mentioned

it with and we are not,

obligated

to believe that

everything else that happened that we just mentioned.

And indeed,

of course, as you can see, the the

embellishment

in the narration is very clear. Right? Furthermore,

it does seem to,

contradict

the

rasma

of the Malaika in this aspect. That the

we believe that the angels do not

sin or disobey Allah Of course,

the retort might be of someone who says

otherwise, is that this was an exception and

that Allah made the plight of the human

being, so it's kind of an exception, But

as we said, when you look at the

whole narration,

there's a lot there that makes it hard

to believe. And this is the difference, subhanAllah,

between the fabricated narrations

and a lot of these embellished stories of

Bani Sahayin, and what is actually true and

authentic.

What is actually true and authentic is usually

immediately

believable

and logical. It's easy to swallow and accept,

as opposed to some of,

these stories. So it seems, Wallahu Alai, that

at least the way it has been mentioned

is not true. Are they fallen angels?

As this narration seems to indicate,

Umaha.

Umaha. Maybe they are fallen angels. Maybe that

part is correct, which is that the angels

were shocked and Allah allowed them to,

try it. But

maybe without the rest of the details about

meeting a woman and killing that man and

and all of that. Are they fallen angels?

It's

a it's an issue about which scholars,

may differ. By the way, other,

narrations mention that they were

When they sit on earth and they were

teaching magic, they were punished by being

hanged from their feet.

And you will find pictures online

of them being

hanged by their feet.

And you will find stories also amongst the

Jews, about 2 fallen angels.